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Dan Verton reports<\/a> in Computerworld<\/em> that FBI computer systems specialists have been targeted for polygraph “testing.” Excerpt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(March 26, 2001) The FBI has quietly expanded its use of the polygraph to cover systems administrators and all other employees with access to sensitive computer networks and databases, marking the first time that government IT specialists have been singled out for the controversial lie detector test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dan Verton reports in Computerworld that FBI computer systems specialists have been targeted for polygraph “testing.” Excerpt: (March 26, 2001) The FBI has quietly expanded its use of the polygraph to cover systems administrators and all other employees with access to sensitive computer networks and databases, marking the first time that government IT specialists have … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30,70],"class_list":["post-2928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polygraph","tag-fbi","tag-polygraph-screening"],"yoast_head":"\n"FBI Sys Admins Face Lie Detector Tests"<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2001\/03\/26\/fbi-sys-admins-face-lie-detector-tests\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""FBI Sys Admins Face Lie Detector Tests"\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dan Verton reports in Computerworld that FBI computer systems specialists have been targeted for polygraph “testing.” Excerpt: (March 26, 2001) The FBI has quietly expanded its use of the polygraph to cover systems administrators and all other employees with access to sensitive computer networks and databases, marking the first time that government IT specialists have ... 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